3 Easiest Seeds to Save From Your Garden
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers
Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Want to get into saving your own seeds, but confused on the process? Brijette and I talk about the three easiest ones to save in today’s show.
About Brijette Peña
In 2010, when owner Brijette Peña came to the stark conclusion that few companies were producing regionally adapted seeds for Southern California climates, she took an oath. An oath to produce organic, regionally adapted seeds that gardeners, farmers and market growers could depend on.
Buy Birdies Garden Beds
Use code EPICPODCAST for 10% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing.
Buy My Book
My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge:
Follow Epic Gardening
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | What's up everyone? |
| 0:02.0 | What's up everyone? |
| 0:04.0 | What's up? |
| 0:05.0 | What's |
| 0:07.0 | What's up? |
| 0:10.0 | What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Kevin Espiritu |
| 0:17.2 | here and we are joined again for a final episode at least for now by |
| 0:22.4 | Bridget Pena of San Diego Seed Company. |
| 0:25.2 | We've talked a lot about seeds this week, different companies that you can support, |
| 0:29.7 | seed varieties for balconies, and now we're getting into a bit more of an advanced |
| 0:33.8 | topic but we've selected some easy seeds for you to save from your garden so as |
| 0:39.4 | as the garden comes to a close or a specific crop comes to maturity, can you save those |
| 0:45.2 | seeds in an easy way? Some plants are a little bit more labor-intensive or time |
| 0:50.2 | intensive to do that, but you've selected three that we can all start with |
| 0:55.8 | as beginner intermediate gardeners right? Yeah yeah absolutely the thing to |
| 1:00.2 | remember about seed saving especially as a small gardener or |
| 1:04.7 | small scale gardener or patio gardener is even if you don't you know you can |
| 1:09.6 | read up on seed saving it can get pretty complex but even just the action of doing it |
| 1:14.7 | even if you don't do it perfectly is so much fun and the next year when you grow |
| 1:19.3 | those seeds out you get to see what they've become and that's the whole point of doing it is being able to see |
| 1:26.1 | kind of the full circle of everything from sewing the seed to growing the seed and then saving it. |
| 1:30.3 | But there are some that are easier than others. There are some that won't have as much cross-pollination and just tend to be very easy to actually physically get the seeds out of. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Epic Gardening, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Epic Gardening and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.